1 — 16:20 — The Subspace Flatness Conjecture and Faster Integer Programming
In a seminal paper, Kannan and Lov\'asz (1988) considered a quantity
which denotes the best volume-based lower bound on the \emph{covering radius}
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We settle this conjecture up to a constant in the exponent by proving that
Following the work of Dadush (2012, 2019), we obtain a
solve integer programs in
Another implication of our main result is a near-optimal \emph{flatness constant} of
2 — 16:50 — Integer programs with nearly totally unimodular matrices: proximity
It is a notorious open question whether integer programs (IPs), with an integer coefficient matrix M whose subdeterminants are all bounded by a constant in absolute value, can be solved in polynomial time. We answer this question in the affirmative if we further require that, by removing a constant number of rows and columns from M, one obtains the transpose of a network matrix. We achieve our result in two main steps, the first related to the theory of IPs and the second related to graph minor theory. In this talk, we focus on the first part: We derive a new proximity result for the case where M is a general totally unimodular matrix and show how it can be used algorithmically in our context.
3 — 17:20 — Integrality Gaps for Random Integer Programs via Discrepancy
We prove new bounds on the additive gap between the value of a random integer program
Dyer and Frieze (MOR '89) and Borst et al. (Mathematical Programming '22), respectively, showed that for certain random packing and Gaussian IPs, where the entries of
Our main technical contribution is a new linear discrepancy theorem for random matrices. Our theorem gives general conditions under which a target vector is equal to or very close to a